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mikaylakyoung

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How do health care costs in the United States compare to health care costs in other countries? What explains these differences?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Who are the three main players in an iron triangle?
 
  a. Congress, the president, and the courts
  b. businesses, interest groups, and political action committees
  c. politicians, candidates, and bureaucrats
  d. bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional subcommittees



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Answer to Question 1

An ideal response will:
1, Discuss how health care is far more costly in the United States compared to other countries. For example, health care expenses in the United Kingdom are less than half of what they are in the United States (approximately 3,700 versus 8,500).
2, Discuss the overbuilding of medical facilities in the United States, including competition among facilities that leads to duplication of expensive equipment in urban areas.
3, Discuss how the fee-for-service insurance programs encourage physicians in the United States to sometimes order unnecessary tests, which adds to health care costs.
4, Explain how there is no single entity responsible for keeping costs down. In other democracies, the government as the sole provider of health care is responsible for managing costs.

Answer to Question 2

d



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